Fingernail file



E. BICKLEY FINGERNAIL FILE Filed Feb. 23, 1937 Aitomeus Patented May 10, 1938 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFIQE 2 Claims.

This invention relates to What is believed to be a novel and improved fingernail file, and the purpose of the invention is to generally improve upon accessories and appliances of this class by providing one possessed of unusual simplicity and ingenuity in that it is especially designed to facilitate use and promote effective and dependable results.

In reducing the principles of the idea to practice, I have found it expedient and practicable to construct the device from a single body of metal or equivalent material, this including a handle and a block-like body portion, one edge of which is fashioned to provide the fingernail file and further constructed to function as a guide to expedite efiicient usage.

Indicated more specifically, the preferred embodiment of the invention comprises the handleequipped block-like body having one edge milled 20 to provide the requisite abrading surface, the same edge having an extending lip or flange constituting a guide, one end of which may be utilized, due to the curvature of the file, as a fingernail cleaner.

Other features and advantages will become more readily apparent from the following description and drawing:

In the drawing:

Figure 1 is a perspective view of a file constructed in accordance with the principles of the present invention.

Figure 2 is an end view observing Figure 1 in a direction from left to right and showing approximately how the file is used.

As before implied, the device is of a unitary construction and is therefore denoted by the numeral 3. It is of appropriate proportions and is preferably of a type that it can be satisfactorily gripped between the thumb and index 40 finger to facilitate skillful and convenient manipulation thereof. To promote dexterity in action, it has been found expedient and practicable to equip the body with a handle portion 4 of general cylindrical cross-sectional form with opposite diametric sides merging into finger-receptive channels or recesses 5. The rectangular block-like body portion 6 has the working surface thereof milled or roughened, as indicated at l, and this forms the file proper. The knurlings may be suitably machined to provide either a fine or a coarse abradant surface. It will be observed that one end of the block as indicated at 8 is rounded and the file is correspondingly directed as indicated at 9. This therefore provides a major straight surface and a rounded end portion. It is to be noted further that the numeral l0 designates an extending lip or flange which constitutes a runner or guide. Then, too, at the rounded end 9 this feature It) projects as at H in forming a convenient fingernail cleaner. It is evident, then, that the device is grasped in the manner before stated and reciprocated back and forth as diagrammatically indicated in Figure 2. The runner or guide ll works back and forth in contact with the fingernail. It may be placed against the outer surface of the nail or against the inner concaved side, as desired. That is to say, the position may be reversed from that shown in Figure 2.

The simplicity of the invention is such as to make it unnecessary to attempt to portray explicitly the commercial advantages of the invention. or to state the problem otherwise, these factors are self evident to those familiar with the use of accessories in this particular line of endeavor.

It is thought that the description taken in connection with the drawing will enable a clear understanding of the invention to be had. Therefore, a more lengthy description is thought unnecessary.

While the preferred embodiment of the invention has been shown and described, it is to be understood that minor changes coming within the field of invention claimed may be resorted to if desired.

I claim:

1. As a new article of manufacture, a unitary body including a block-like body portion and a hand-grip formed along one longitudinal portion thereof, the opposite longitudinal edge thereof being provided with an abradant fingernail file, and a flange along one side edge of the body in the vicinity of the file and projecting outwardly beyond the file to constitute a guide lip for the fingernail.

2. As a new article of manufacture, an implement of the class described comprising a substantially flat rectangular body formed along one longitudinal edge with a hand-grip, the opposite edge being provided with an abradant fingernail file, the file being generally straight throughout its longitudinal dimension and rounded at one corner, and a flange formed as a continuation of one side edge of the body and projecting beyond the file to form a fingernail guide, that end of the flange adjacent the rounded corner of the file projecting in relation thereto to define a fingernail cleaner having right angle edges.

ELMER BICKLEY. 

